eating 2.0

Eat and drink smartly to stay healthy.

Free Preview - Chapter 1 - Basics of Dieting - Introduction

Dieting is one of those things that is completely integrated into the Western culture. On any given day, a huge portion of this population is “on a diet” and “counting calories” in one way or another. And look at how many of the diet names in the following list you recognize:

The Atkins Diet

The Cabbage Soup Diet

The Grapefruit Diet

The Hollywood Miracle Diet

The Rice Diet

The Scarsdale Diet

The South Beach Diet

The Zone Diet

You probably recognize many of these names because you hear them all the time!

In this section, we will look at weight gain and why gaining weight is so easy. Then we will look at what you can do about weight gain - in the form of diet and exercise - to maintain a consistent weight.